Job 22:1-6

1 Entonces respondió Elifaz temanita, y dijo:

2 ¿Puede un hombre ser útil a Dios, o un sabio útil para sí mismo?

3 ¿Es de algún beneficio al Todopoderoso que tú seas justo, o gana algo si haces perfectos tus caminos?

4 ¿Es a causa de tu piedad que El te reprende, que entra en juicio contigo?

5 ¿No es grande tu maldad, y sin fin tus iniquidades?

6 Porque sin razón tomabas prendas de tus hermanos, y has despojado de sus ropas a los desnudos.

Job 22:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 22

This chapter contains the third and last reply of Eliphaz to Job, in which he charges him with having too high an opinion of himself, of his holiness and righteousness, as if God was profited by it, and laid thereby under obligation to him, whereas he was not, Job 22:1-3; and as if he reproved and chastised him, because of his fear of him, whereas it was because of his sins, Job 22:4,5; an enumeration of which he gives, as of injustice, oppression, cruelty to the poor, and even of atheism and infidelity, for which snares and fears were around him, and various calamities, Job 22:6-14; and compares his way and course of life to that of the men of the old world, and the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, and suggests that his end would be like theirs, unless he repented, Job 22:15-20; and then concludes with an exhortation to him to return to God by repentance, and to reform, when he should see happy times again, and enjoy much outward and inward prosperity, and be an instrument of doing much good to many, Job 22:21-30.